Vanesa Castán Broto, Ir, MSc

 

Research Engineer, Environmental and Human Sciences Division

Email: vanesa.castan.broto@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1420 22255
Tel direct: +44 (0)1420 526177
Fax: +44 (0)1420 23563

Address:
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey GU10 4LH
UK

Vanesa completed a Civil Engineering degree at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain) and an MSc in Environmental Policy at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). Her previous experience included research into Environmental Policy in the European Union at the Institute of European Environmental Policy in London.

She joined Forest Research in March 2005. 

Current role

Research Engineer, Social and Economic Research Group, Environmental and Human Sciences Division, and EngD student at the Centre for Environmental Strategy, Surrey University.

Current programmes

RECOAL
Participating in the EC project RECOAL (INCO-WBC-1-509173) carrying out research on local and expert narratives of pollution, risk and planning in the western Balkans.

Other affiliations

• Associated member of the Institute of Environmental Management
• Member of ‘Colegio de Ingenieros de Montes’ of Spain
• Member of the British Sociological Association, UK
• Member of the International Sociological Association

Research areas

• Land regeneration and urban planning
• Environmental pollution and the perception of risks
• Environmental knowledge and policy development
• Place and identity

Main recent publications

Castán Broto, V. (forthcoming). Health innovation, hormones, sunlight: sociological critiques of science and health. Review essay in Sociology.

Castán Broto, V., Burningham, K., Elghali, L., Carter, C. (forthcoming). Stigma and attachment: performance of identity in an environmentally degraded place. Society and Natural Resources.

Castán Broto, V., Carter, C., Elghali, L. (forthcoming). The governance of coal ash pollution in post-socialist times: when local realities don’t match expectations . Environmental Politics.

Scolobig, A., Castán Broto, V., Zabala, A. (forthcoming). Integrating multiple perspectives in social multicriteria evaluation of flood mitigation alternatives: the case of Malborghetto-Valbruna. Environment and Planning C.

Castán Broto, V., Carter, C., and Elghali, L. (forthcoming). ‘Environmental Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Post-socialism Development and Local Governance (A dramatised interpretation in one act)’. In: R. Hillerbrand and R. Karlsson [Title to be confirmed]. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. ISBN: 978-1-904710-50-9.

Castán Broto, V., Tabbush, P., Burningham, K., Elghali, L., Edwards, D. (2007). Coal ash and risk: four social perspectives on a pollution landscape. In Landscape Research, Vol 32, No 4: 481-497.